tmbarton

Oh I am a numpty! There's a fuse, in the rear fuse box, FB10 I think called "Alarm System Horn" or some such. Take that out, no noise. Duh, job done. Actually, it didn't matter, because the garage had to order a new alarm horn, that being the problem again or so they believe, and they couldn't get one until tomorrow. However I've asked them to leave it disconnected and I'll take it back after the holiday. Absolutely no risk of irritating the neighbours while we're away now. Trevor

Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure if that would work - I suspect the problem isn't really in the sensors anyway but in the connection - earlier the alarm problem we had was apparently water getting into a connector triggering the alarm. This may or may not be the same problem. I don't really want the blasted alarm anyway - nobody takes any notice of them and they're just an irritation for everybody around. I agree that disconnecting the battery might cause insurance problems if they found out, though. Thinking about it, if I do have to leave it connected I'll leave it in low-protection mode anyway, good thought. Trevor

We have the alarm problems mentioned in the thread below and although the car is in for servicing today under warranty and they mentioned faulty centre light-fitting sensors being a problem, I'm not convinced that that will fix the problem - it's the second time the car's been in for the alarm. My problem is that we are going off on holiday for a couple of weeks leaving the car on the drive and I really don't want the alarm going off while we're away. So I'm considering disconnecting the battery while we're not there. However I'm not convinced that that'll work either. We have a MkIII Ghia with the standard alarm (Thatcham Cat 1 the original blurb says). A couple of questions: Will the driver's door key lock work if the battery is disconnected? I'm guessing not, which will scupper the whole idea from the start. And, even if it does, does that alarm have a battery-backed sounder that'll go off anyway with no car battery connection? Trevor